“Europe is shifting. President Karol Nawrocki refuses to implement the migration pact in Poland. We refuse as well. Now there are two of us. If a third joins, that’s already a rebellion,” wrote Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on social media.
“Democracy depends on votes”
The regulations include a so-called mechanism of mandatory solidarity, which envisions the annual relocation of at least 30,000 migrants. Countries that refuse will have to pay €20,000 for each unprocessed application or provide so-called alternative solidarity measures, such as sending personnel.
“Democracy depends on votes. Change the people, change the cultural composition, and you change the outcome. Western Europe opened its doors to migration and now faces terror, division, and loss of identity. We will not go down that path. Not here, never – it ends at our borders,” said Viktor Orbán in an interview.
President Nawrocki wrote in a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that Poland will not consent to actions by European institutions aimed at relocating illegal migrants onto its territory. He expressed hope that the EC President would take this fact into account in her actions.